Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design

by David Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer

Overview

This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.

Important topics include:

- Microarchitectural techniques to reduce energy per operation

- Power reduction with timing slack from pipelining

- Analysis of the benefits of using multiple supply and threshold voltages

- Placement techniques for multiple supply voltages

- Verification for multiple voltage domains

- Improved algorithms for gate sizing, and assignment of supply and threshold voltages

- Power gating design automation to reduce leakage

- Relationships among tatistical timing, power analysis, and parametric yield optimization

Design examples illustrate that these techniques can improve energy efficiency by two to three times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441938336
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/29/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Overview of the Factors Affecting the Power Consumption.- Pipelining to Reduce the Power.- Voltage Scaling.- Methodology to Optimize Energy of Computation for SOCs.- Linear Programming for Gate Sizing.- Linear Programming for Multi-Vth and Multi-Vdd Assignment.- Power Optimization using Multiple Supply Voltages.- Placement for Power Optimization.- Power Gating Design Automation.- Verification For Multiple Supply Voltage Designs.- Winning the Power Struggle in an Uncertain Era.- Pushing ASIC Performance in a Power Envelope.- Low Power ARM 1136JF-S Design.